Mosquito-net frame



(No Model.)

4 A. 0. LOTTMAN.

MOSQUITO NET FRAME.

No. 442,486. Patented Dec. 9, 1890.

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MUSQUlTO-NET FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Fatent No. 442,486, dated December 9, 1890.

Application filed February 27, 1890. Serial No. 341,912- (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT G. LOTTMAN, of Houston, in the county of Harris and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Mosquito-Net Frames, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in mosquito-net frames, and has for its object to provide a frame of simple and durable construction, capable of convenient attachment to or of detachment from any bedstead, and which when attached will be firmly braced and securely held against lateral movement.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully setforth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the frame applied to a bedstead. Fig. 2 is a plan view of a portion of one of the side and rear bars, illustrating their connection. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of one of the uprights detached from the frame. Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the rear bar. Fig. 5 is a side view of one of the side bars; and Fig. 6 is a side elevation, partly in section, of one of the brace-bars.

In constructing the frame two parallel uprights 10 are employed, which are preferably reduced at both ends to form studs 11. The side bars 12 used in connection with the uprights are adapted to extend horizontally therefrom over the bed in the direction of the length of the latter, and each side bar is provided at its rear end with an attached eye 13 and at its forward extremity with a staple 14, one member of said staple being secured in the bar and the opposite member projected to the rear and beneath it, as shown in Figs. 1 and 5. The two uprights are connected at their upper ends by a rear bar 15, provided with an eye 16 at each end, and an angle brace plate 17, attached to the extremity of the bar or shank of each eye. These braceplates extend at a right angle from the bar and outward in opposite directions parallel with the bar, the outer member of each plate being preferably provided with a cavity 18, as best illustrated in Fig. l The frame is completed by the addition of side bracebars 19, each having a pin 20, secured at one end, adapted to enter an aperture 21 in the uprights located below the upper end upon the front face, and at the forward end of said brace'bars a socket 22 is produced to receive the lower member of the staple 1lof the side bars.

In setting up the frame two spaced eyes 23 and Eli are located in vertical alignment at each side of the head-board of the bed, near each end thereof, the lower eye it being smaller than the upper eye 23. An upright 10 is passed downward through each upper eye 23, and the lower studs 11 of the uprights are passed through the lower eyes 24, whereupon the shoulder formed by the reduction of the lower end of the uprights rests upon the lower eyes. The eyes 13 of the side bars are placed over the upper studs of the uprights, and likewise the eyes 16 of the end bar 15, and when the end bar has been placed in position the brace-plates are so manipulated that they will be upon the inner side of the frame and their outer members will contact with the shanks of the eyes of the side bars 12, as best shown in Fig. 1. A front bar 25, not heretofore referred to, is also used in connection with the frame, the said front bar bein g provided with an eye at each end, and the staples 14: of the side bars are passed through the eyes of the front bars until the said eyes ride upon the vertical section of the staples. The pins 20 of the brace-bars are now entered into the apertures 21 of the uprights, and the lower horizontal members of the staples are entered into the sockets 22 of the said side bars, as is likewise best shown in Fig. 1. hen the brace-bars are placed in position, they incline from the rear in the direction of the front.

A frame formed as above described, it will be readily observed, is very rigid, as the side bars effectually support the main frame and the brace-plates do not admit of any lateral movement. It is also evident that the frame may be cheaply constructed and readily at tached to or detached from any bed.

Although the frame is illustrated as at tached to the front face of the head-board, it may be and preferably is secured to the rear of said board. 7

Having thus described my invention, I claim as 1161Vi11ld desire to secure by Letters Patent 7 1. In a mosquito-net frame, the vertical standards 10, having tenons 11 at their upper ends, the horizontal rear bar 15, having eyes 16 at its ends, receiving said tenons, the horizontal side bars 12, having eyes 13 at their inner ends, also receiving said tenons, and pro vided at their forward ends with downward and rearward projecting staples 14:, the front bar 25, having eyes at its ends, through which pass the staples 14, and the side arms 19, having pins or tenons 20 at their inner ends entering thestandai'ds and provided at their outer ends with apertures receiving the rear ward projecting ends of the staples 14, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the standards 10, having tenons 11 at their upper ends, the rear and side bars having eyes receiving said tenons, and a front bar 25, connecting the front ends'of bars 12, of the horizontal angle-plates 17, mounted at their rear ends on the ends of the bar 15, with their outer ends resting against the adjacent sides of the two side bars 12 at the rear ends thereof to prevent horizontal movement of the side bars on the standards, and the inclined brace-bars 19, sub stantially as set forth.

3. A mosquito-net frame consisting in the standards 10, provided with tenons at the r upper ends and with apertures 21 in the r front faces below the tenons, the rear horizontal bar having eyes 16 receiving the tenons, the side bars 12, having eyes receiving said tenons and provided at their forward ends with the downward and rearward pro ecting staples 14, the angle-plates 17, lying n the horizontal plane of the said arms 12 15 in the angle formed at the juncture thereof, to prevent horizontal movement of the bars 12, and provided with recesses 18, the front bar 25, having eyes at its ends receiving the staples 14:, and the brace-bars 19,113Vil'lgPlllS or tenons 20 at their rear ends entering the apertures 21 and provided at their forward ends with apertures 22, receiving the rearward pro ecting arms of said staples, substantially as set forth.

ALBERT O. LOTYMAN.

lVitnesses:

B, H. PATTERSON, O. C. LIEB. 

